WPF Binding - Self Binding with its own DataContext

Question

Anyone got a situation to bind the same DataContext to Text property (for example) in TextBlock.

I have to assign the DataContext to reflect some trigger based on the Data values from Datacontext in my style. at the same time, i need to bind with the same DataContext object to get the Text Property After applying some conversion on either IValueConverter/IMultivalueConverter.

As i know {Binding}, just bind with the current datacontext. But in the same scenario how to use converter with it? Any suggestions will be appreciated.

    <TextBlock Style="{StaticResource DataEntryTextBlock1}" Grid.Row="1"
               DataContext="{Binding MyField1}"
               Text="{Binding MyField1, Converter={StaticResource myConverter}}">
    </TextBlock>

This XAML script does not work, as the Text binding is trying to look for the MyField1 variable inside the MyField1.

Thanks, Vinodh

Answer 1

{Binding} is equivalent to {Binding Path=.} so in you case you can use

Text="{Binding Path=., Converter={StaticResource myConverter}}"

Binding.Path on MSDN

Optionally, a period (.) path can be used to bind to the current source. For example, Text="{Binding}" is equivalent to Text="{Binding Path=.}"